Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing realistic in the policy of stationing Negro soldiers in the ultra-prejudiced South, where they are excluded from many towns and proper recreation. There is nothing realistic in the policy of arming Negro MP's only with billy clubs, and then assigning white MP's with guns to patrol colored districs. There is nothing realistic in the policy of white commanders, who have agreed to comply with the demands of local authorities. In one instance townspeople and state police forced colored troops to walk in the ditch beside the main highway and to break camp in the middle...
...comet, which cannot yet be seen by the naked eye, has been recorded by patrol cameras at the Harvard Observatory, Fred L. Whipple, lecturer and tutor in the department of Astronomy announced yesterday...
...Civil Air Patrol, a chick of the defense program, hatched in the disorderly nest of the Office of Civilian Defense, last week began to look like an eaglet...
...They may be able to extend the stay two or three months if they can afford the luxury of a wandering supply ship. And off the U.S. coast his submarines will have to operate within the range of land-based planes and blimps, and small Navy and Coast Guard patrol boats, not to mention mine fields and submarine nets close to ports...
...certified planes. Army & Navy had already tapped this source for flying cadets, had taken over some private planes. But OCD figured that thousands who were unavailable for military service because of age, sex, physical defects, would still be available for much useful home-front work: carrying messages, patrol work, etc. The Army thought there might be something in the idea, assigned Major General John F. Curry to head newborn...